Comments on: Cannery must have better bike connectivityhttp://www.davisenterprise.com/forum/opinion-columns/cannery-must-have-better-bike-connectivity/
Yolo County, CaliforniaFri, 31 Jul 2015 19:56:47 -0700hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1By: Alan Millerhttp://www.davisenterprise.com/forum/opinion-columns/cannery-must-have-better-bike-connectivity/comment-page-1/#comment-453215
Wed, 25 Sep 2013 19:36:20 +0000http://www.davisenterprise.com/?p=381718#comment-453215This is a good chunk of the developer’s profits. Beyond that, the arguments made are flawless. The developers should accept community values in transportation and create a project does not degrade alternate transportation mode share; or more to the point the City Council should insist. As Con Agra destroyed valued industrial infrastructure worth millions to force the building of higher-profits-for-them residential, F-‘em if they can’t work with the community by funding safe and cleaner and less traffic transportation alternatives. The two connectors proposed by the authors are exactly what the project needs. As these paths are natural directions of travel, you can bet unauthorized and much-less-safe paths of kids cutting holes in the fence and crossing the railroad and darting across Covell, in the places where these alternatives should be built, will occur. Require the developer to do this right out of the gate.
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Wed, 25 Sep 2013 18:50:02 +0000http://www.davisenterprise.com/?p=381718#comment-453213I urge all parents, community members, and city council persons to visit the location of the one and only bike connection that would be part of the project, as it is currently proposed, and examine whether you think you and/or school children would use the proposed route (or their parents would let them). The bike route would travel under the Covell Blvd overpass on the east side of the RR tracks, followed by a tight turn to the east and then up hill, followed by a 180-degree turn to the west and more uphill to get to the top of the overpass. That’s a lot of work to get only 75 feet from the project site (as the crow flies). After this climb cyclists would speed downhill toward F Street where they then must turn left to stay on the existing path, and then slow down to cross F Street. This route would not provide improved access to Holmes Junior High, Birch Lane, or Da Vinci.
The proposed route also lacks appropriate “eyes on the street” that makes other bike routes, green belts, and public spaces safe. It is secluded and cannot be see from areas that are actively used.
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